Tail Shortens When I Cast On?

Hi there,

I’m brand-new to knitting and to this forum. A friend showed me all the basics and I eventually had about 10 rows done… but to make a long story short I tried to fix a mistake, made it worse, and decided to unravel and restart.

So I’m casting on again and the stitches look perfectly fine… except I noticed that every time I make a stitch the tail end keeps getting shorter and shorter. I don’t remember this happening the first time around! Maybe I just didn’t notice? I would appreciate any advice on how to keep this from happening. Thanks!

Hello and welcome to this forum. If you do the long tail cast on, the tail will get shorter for each stitch you cast on.